"HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden" error when you open an IIS 7.0 Webpage

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Applies to: Internet Information Services 7.0

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Note The target audience for this article is website administrators or web developers.

Symptoms

You have a Web site that is hosted on Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0. When you visit the Web site in a Web browser, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:

Server Error in Application "application name"

HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden

HRESULT: 0x00000000

Description of HRESULT : The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory.

Resolution

For end-users

If you are an end-user, you should contact the website administrators in order to let them know that this error has occurred for this URL address. Then, the website administrators will fix this issue later.

For site administrators

This problem occurs because the Web site does not have the Directory Browsing feature enabled, and the default document is not configured. To resolve this problem, use one of the following methods: